Prof. Yonghui Li (IEEE Fellow)

The University of Sydney, Australia

Biography: Yonghui Li is now a Professor and Director of Wireless Engineering Laboratory in School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney. He is the recipient of the Australian Research Council (ARC)Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2008 and ARC Future Fellowship in 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow. His current research interests are in the area of wireless communications. Professor Li was an editor for IEEE transactions on communications, IEEE transactions on vehicular technology and guest editors for several special issues of IEEE journals, such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE IoT Journals, IEEE Communications Magazine. He received the best paper awards from several conferences. He has published one book, more than 300 papers in premier IEEE journals and more than 200 papers in premier IEEE conferences. His publications have been cited more than 20000 times.

Prof. Weihai Zhang (IEEE Senior Member)

Shandong University of Science and Technology

Biography: 

Weihai Zhang received the M.S. degree in probability theory and mathematical statistics and the Ph.D. degree in operations research and cybernetics from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Shandong University of Science and Technology and Taishan Scholar of Shandong Province, China. He has authored or coauthored more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and two monographs. His research interests include linear and nonlinear stochastic optimal control, mean-field systems, robust   control, stochastic stability and stabilization, multi-objective optimization, and adaptive fuzzy control.

He is an Associate Editor for the Asian Journal of Control, the International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, and the Journal of The Franklin Institute. He is a Member of the Technical Committee on Control Theory of Chinese Association of Automation. He has received the Second Prize of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China twice.

Prof. Dong F. Wang (IEEE Member)

Jilin University, China

Biography: Dong F. Wang (Tang Aoqing Professor) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in materials science and engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and the Ph.D. degree in mechatronic and precision engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He was with Prof. Masayoshi Esashi with the Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Laboratory, Tohoku University, where his research was focused on nanomachining of ultrathin hard films, nanomechanics of ultrathin silicon resonators, and micro/nanomagnetic mesa structures for all-silicon quantum computers. Since 2014, he has been a Leading Professor/Head with the Micro Engineering and Micro Systems (MEMS) Laboratory (JML), Jilin University, Changchun, China. He has authored three international book chapters in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (Springer, 2018) and Advanced Sensors and Sensing Technologies for Electric Vehicles (AIP, 2022) and more than 220 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, including Elsevier Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), and AIP Applied Physics Letters (APL), and conference proceedings. His representative achievement of “resonant current sensor” has been labeled as “resonant galvanometer or Wang’s galvanometer” by Elsevier Measurement, TIE, TIM etc. since 2022. He holds 70 Chinese patents and two Japanese patents. He has given more than 20 invited presentations at universities/institutes and more than10 keynote/plenary addresses at international conferences. His research interests include Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems / Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS), resonant physical sensors (RPSs), as well as smart sensing for intelligent machinery (SSIM).Dr. Wang serves as the Evaluation Expert for National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, and Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.Dr. Wang is a Senior Member of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES) and Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology (CSMNT) and a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) (USA), Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) (Japan), Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) (Japan), the Japan Society of Next Generation Sensor Technology, and the MEMS Industry Forum (Japan). He has received several awards from Japan, USA, and China. He serves as the General Chair and the Co-Chairperson for more than 10 international conferences and a contributing reviewer for more than 40 SCI-indexed journals. He has been one of the founders of the Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE NEMS) since 2006 as well as the Japan–China–Korea Joint Conference on MEMS/NEMS (JCK MEMS/NEMS) dated back to 2006. His group is also collaborating with professors/researchers from Tohoku University, The University of Tokyo, and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in ubiquitous MEMS and micro engineering.

Prof. Kai Wang (IEEE Member)

Sun Yat-sen University, China

Biography: Prof. Kai Wang is currently associated with the School of Electronics and Information Technology at Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, China. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 2008 and continued his pursuit of excellence as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Thunder Bay Health Science Centre (Canada). During this time, he conducted cutting-edge research on large area imaging. In 2011, he joined Apple Inc. in US as a senior hardware development engineer, further enhancing his expertise.In 2014, he shared his knowledge as a visiting professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in US. His passion for fostering advancements in the field led him to become one of the founding faculty members in the Microelectronics program at SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering (JIE). He has been a full professor since 2017 and is also cross-appointed by the State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies (SKL-OEMT) at SYSU, where he leads groundbreaking research in radiation detector and image sensor technologies.His remarkable contributions to the scientific community include publishing over 120 journal papers and conference proceedings. He has also coauthored more than 40 patents, 30 of which have been successfully transferred to industry and brought nearly 3-million-yuan loyalty revenue.